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| #e.21467 | Tuesday 9:00AM to 12:00PM
October 16,
2012 | CM | 3.00 |
Community Guidance to Maintain Working Farms & ForestsNarragansett Bay NERRProvidence, RI Free event This workshop will provide guidance to help towns to provide economic incentives for landowners to preserve their land in agriculture or forestry. The focus of this effort is to identify appropriate business uses of farm and forest lands, and to explore how towns might encourage such activities through changes in planning policies, zoning and other regulations.
The following will be covered:
1) Identifying business uses or commercial operations that will help maintain the viability of our farms and provide incentives to limit the development of working farm and forest lands;
2) Developing performance standards for these business activities that will allow them to coexist within residential zones with neighboring homes and other uses;
3) Crafting regulatory guidance that communities can use to shape local ordinances that allow for new businesses, bring existing commercial operations in residential zones into conformity, and apply reasonable performance standards.
Instructors: Nathan Kelly AICP Nathan Kelly is Senior Planner for the Horsley Witten Group, Inc. and directs the firm’s Providence Office. Nate has successfully managed projects for over ten years at Horsley Witten, providing professional planning and zoning services to more than 50 New England municipalities. His work has ranged from comprehensive zoning revision projects to developing affordable housing, open space, rural land preservation and economic development studies. Many of Nate’s projects require extensive public outreach in the form of charrettes, public forums and public hearings and he regularly provides technical training on a wide variety of innovative regulatory tools. Some of his most notable local projects include the North Kingstown Transfer of Development Rights program, the Massachusetts Smart Growth/Smart Energy Toolkit, KeepSpace facilitation, and re-writing the permitting process and performance standards for the Quonset Development Corporation. Nate’s project teams have received numerous awards from the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Planning Association and he regularly provides technical support to Grow Smart RI. Nate is a member of the Rhode Island and Massachusetts Chapters of the American Planning Association and received his Masters Degree in Urban and Environmental Policy from Tufts University. (7 Ratings)
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